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Re: heat is not a noun and GAUSS LAW

Leigh Palmer wrote:

Phlogiston died in 1804, must we continue to beat it?

It's not phlogiston that is the enemy; it's caloric.
Caloric is alive and actively misconceiving!

I do not think that caloric is less real than electric flux.
It is just a useful abstract concept. How useful? It
becomes a matter of preference.
Ludwik Kowalski